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I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited. Geoff Dyer

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He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill. George Plimpton

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I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.' George R. R. Martin

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I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood. George R. R. Martin

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I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up book that I had read. It is the story of a young man who grows up to be a novelist. I finished it, and I wanted to write a book that made the reader feel the way I felt at the end of that, which was sort of both bereft and elated. Glen Duncan

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The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. Goldwin Smith

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I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter. Graeme Simsion

Happy Better Am Than Screenwriter Novelist

As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things. Graham Swift

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One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist. Hanya Yanagihara

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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I. Hanya Yanagihara

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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear. Hanya Yanagihara

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I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something. Haruki Murakami

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The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes in. You must work with intractable facts and find the dramatic shape inside them. Hilary Mantel

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When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist. Hirokazu Kore-eda

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Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over. Irving Stone

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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow. J. B. Priestley

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I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature. Jacqueline Susann

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Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist. James Ellroy

The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom. Jane Green

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An urban novelist never minds a little decay. Jane Smiley

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